Films
Six passionate, ambitious high school students compete in an annual monologue competition on Broadway in honor of renowned playwright August Wilson. Intercutting the students’ meticulous preparation with interviews that explore Wilson’s chronicling of the African American experience, Giving Voice is a vibrant living history of theater’s past and present.
MORE ›GLASS offers a rare glimpse of a great composer at work. What is the process involved in creating a symphony? What forces led to the…
MORE ›A personal journey through unscreened corners of France, from farm fields and vineyards to city markets, the film addresses the topic of gleaning, or the…
MORE ›Within weeks of being diagnosed with ALS, former NFL defensive back Steve Gleason finds out that he and his wife are expecting their first child. Gleason follows his decision to live, for his family and others fighting the disease.
MORE ›From Mexico to the Philippines to Tennessee, this remarkably prescient film, completed in 1986, examines the consequences both at home and abroad of the then relatively new American business practice of outsourcing manufacture and assembly jobs.
MORE ›An unflinchingly dispassionate look at the process of enlisting in the United States Army. Spend a day in the combat boots of a United States…
MORE ›This absorbing feature unravels the mystery surrounding a woman found dead in a vacant New Hampshire farmhouse.
MORE ›American Christian evangelists export virulent anti-gay teachings to Sub-Saharan Africa with deadly consequences.
MORE ›More than five million African Americans journeyed from the cotton fields and Jim Crow injustice of the rural South to the promise of a better…
MORE ›This engimatic short recollects and reimagines over 116 hours of footage the filmmaker shot over several decades.
MORE ›After numerous women go missing, leaving their families and local law-enforcement officers with more questions than answers, this stunning series investigates whether or not a serial killer is responsible.
MORE ›Join director Alex Gibney for a behind the scenes look at his upcoming film on the life and death of the Gonzo journalist and controversial…
MORE ›While covering the campaign trail in 1972, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson once noted that “there is no such thing as off the record.” Echoing this…
MORE ›With 382 career wins, Bobby Bowden is one of the winningest coaches in college football. Since 1976, when he became coach at Florida State, hundreds…
MORE ›Controversial modern dance choreographer Bill T. Jones creates an ambitious interdisciplinary work about the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
MORE ›Wake up…time to go to work. Quick rush to the station. Be among the thousands funneling through the turnstile. Jockey for a position aboard the…
MORE ›When the first Peanuts comic strip appeared in 1950—simple line drawings of a group of children doing what children do: playing football, flying kites, and…
MORE ›Liverpudian teenager Freda Kelly was the Beatles secretary and tells “one of the last true stories of the Beatles you’ll ever hear.”
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